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Nations Presse Info About Us | Green Sports Alliance Scott Jenkins joined AMB Sports & Entertainment Group in February 2014 to provide insight into the planning and construction of the new Atlanta Stadium leading up to its opening in 2017, after which he will manage the operations of the stadium. Jenkins comes to the Atlanta Falcons from the Seattle Mariners, where he spent the past seven-and-a-half years as vice president of ballpark operations and was responsible for overseeing all aspects of operating and managing Safeco Field. Prior to joining the Mariners, Jenkins spent three years with the Philadelphia Eagles where he opened and managed Lincoln Financial Field. Scott has served as V.P. of Stadium Operations for the Milwaukee Brewers and Director of Facilities and Events for Intercollegiate Athletics at the University of Wisconsin.

Démentiel : les banksters sont désormais “Trop gros pour aller en prison” ! [C’est la façade du bankster UBS à Locarno, en Suisse. Le climat et l’environnement sont infiniment plus agréables qu’à Luxembourg, mais on y pratique aussi le recel de fraude fiscale à grande échelle] On en lit des trucs sur Internet ! Mais heureusement il y a des jours d’exception. Mes images sont mal choisies car la lumière peut aussi être bénéfique. Ce journaliste s’appelle Matt Taibbi. Un grand merci à Madame Laetsgo, qui écrit à ses heures sur le blog collectif “Ruminances”, qui lit et commente par ici, et qui est aussi l’un de mes plus efficaces hauts-parleurs dans ce capharnaüm qu’est Twitter. Des liens, ici, il y en a pléthore. Or là : paf ! Je le dis et le répète, la finance a pris une place démesurée sur cette planète, et comme un cancer qui commence à métastaser, il faut l’arrêter par tous les moyens. Vous ne me croyez pas ? Ces deux banques ont récemment été convaincues de malfaisance répétée et généralisée. Tous corrompus, tous aux ordres. Et voilà.

Tips for a Better Sex Life These five missions will push your sex life—and your relationship—to new heights. Whip out your red pen and start crossing them off your to-do list. 1. Invent Your Own Move "Improvising new sex positions shows that you're secure enough with each other to experiment," says Susan Crain Bakos, author of The Orgasm Bible. You'll both feel like sexual pioneers, creating self-confidence that will liberate your libidos. Your assignment: Tweak your old favorites. 2. Carving out a day of erotic activity can stoke your woman's fires. Your assignment: Set aside one weekend day a month to lavish attention on each other. 3. "When you're mired in a major life event like buying a house or even planning a vacation, the stress can do your sex life in," says Debby Herbenick, Ph.D., the Men's Health Sex Professor. Your assignment: Tell her what you're going to do after you carry her over the threshold of the new house, or detail your intentions for the outdoor shower after your day at the beach. 4. 5.

Stop Spying Green Sports Summit 2012 › Program Workshop - Creating & Executing Powerful Community LegaciesREAD MORE Sports teams and events have a superb opportunity, as well as a responsibility, to help build healthy and vibrant communities. With long-term and strategic thinking, sports organizations can create lasting community legacies through sustainability initiatives. These legacies are often equally as beneficial to the organization's brand in the short-term as they are to the community's prosperity in the long-term. Through presentations, an expert panel and breakout discussions, this workshop will explore how teams, venues, leagues and international mega-events are identifying legacy themes (i.e. economic development, environmental stewardship, education, equality, etc.), and developing unique partnerships to help execute on the initiatives throughout operations and communications. Workshop - Digging Deeper into Composting: Exploring challenges & successes in program development and executionREAD MORE

Ignore their howls of protest. If bankers leave the country, it would be no loss | Simon Jenkins The peasants are revolting across Europe. They want bankers' blood and mean to get it. Until now, public response to the credit crunch has been one of general bafflement and wrist-slapping. The worm has turned. Meanwhile, a Swiss referendum now requires top executives to seek explicit shareholder approval for their pay, with a ban on golden hellos and goodbyes. Europe's once omnipotent banking lobby has been all but neutered by the scale of scandal. Only in Britain do ministers still dance to the bankers' tune. Last year the City of London's much-heralded "shareholder spring" got nowhere. The reality is that the banking community has allowed this thirst for revenge to build up for over four years, and it just did not care. This had nothing to do with free markets, except within a tight group of high-rolling traders. For four years the British government – Labour and the coalition – huffed and puffed but was too terrified of the banks to act.

Recipe: Grilled Asparagus and Avocado Tacos Unless you're a no-meat athlete, your grill likely cooks hot dogs, hamburgers, chicken breasts, or steaks almost every time you fire it up. Sure, you'll throw on some veggies as a side dish, but the meat tends to take center grate. It doesn't when you're making these tacos — and you won't even miss it. Ivy Stark, executive chef at Dos Caminos, touts this recipe as one that's healthy but still tasty, filling, and satisfying. Stark has been running for 25 years, and often run-commutes between three and four miles to whichever Dos Caminos location she's working at that day. You'll need to oil your grill and your avocadoes really well to ensure that they don't stick. Grilled Asparagus and Avocado TacosRecipes by Ivy Stark, executive chef at Dos Caminos How to make it:1. Cucumber Pico de Gallo How to make it:1. Refried White Beans How to make it:1.

Building Human Rights - United States Global Mayors Put UN’s Sustainable City Guidelines In Motion After providing the curriculum for training urban leaders from 12 Southeast and Central Asian nations a few weeks ago, the United Nations is now globally launching the full content of the Shanghai Manual: A Guide for Sustainable Urban Development in the 21st Century. The free publication features 47 global urban sustainability case studies and dozens of timely policy recommendations, especially when one considers the lack of a new global climate treaty due to tactics of "delaying nations" at the Durban climate talks, including the US. Instead, the Shanghai Manual is a practical tool intended to help the world's major and medium-sized cities in developing nations further advance their local green economies. The "green economy" is also the key theme of the 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, known as Rio+20. The training offered some surprises. Warren Karlenzig is president of Common Current. Connect: Authored by: Warren Karlenzig See complete profile

Dark-pool trading reaches record levels in Europe By Anish Puaar European share trading taking place in anonymous, off-exchange venues known as "dark pools" reached its highest-ever level in July, amid lower volatility and a growing proliferation of high-frequency trading on the platforms. About 10.3% of all European equities trading last month took place on these venues, according to data from Thomson Reuters. By value, trades worth EUR75.1 billion were transacted on these venues in July, 12% higher than the value traded in dark pools in January and 28% higher than in July 2012. The Thomson Reuters data includes activity in "dark" multilateral trading facilities, that are operated by exchanges such as the London Stock Exchange Group and Bats Chi-X Europe and brokers, as well as those run by investment banks in the form of broker crossing networks. Dark pools do not display prices to the market, and allow investors to place orders anonymously to help minimise market impact.

leruisseau - Recueil de textes Des robots-traders ont-il réagi aux annonces de la Fed... plus vite que la lumière? Par définition, le trading à haute fréquence va vite, très vite… Tellement vite même que mercredi, lors des annonces de la Réserve fédérale américaine, certains robots semblent avoir réagi quasi instantanément La rapidité des premières transactions après la diffusion du communiqué de la Fed a supris Nanex,un bureau américain spécialisé dans le trading à haute fréquence situé à Chicago qui en a fait état dans une note. La Fed maintient sa politique, en Bourse, les échangent bondissent A 14h00 très précises, heure de Washington (20h00 à Paris), le 18 septembre, la Réserve fédérale annonçait son intention poursuivre son programme de "Quantitative Easing", à la surprise d'une majorité d'analystes. Moins de 5 millisecondes pour passer un ordre Problème : Nanex a enregistré des réactions exactement au même moment à New York et Chicago. Pourtant, des ordres d'achats ont pu être passés en moins de 2 millisecondes à New York. et à Chicago, selon le bureau d'études. Une fuite? Pour aller plus loin :

GENERATION PRECAIRE, mouvement pour la réforme des stages Showing image 1 of 15 Lancement de la 1ère "tweet mob" pour les droits des stagiaires Lancement de la 1ère "tweet mob" pour les droits des stagiaires Mercredi 12 Février 13H Mercredi 12 Février, à l’occasion de la présentation de la proposition de loi Khirouni sur les stages en Commission des affaires sociales, le collectif de défense des stagiaires lance une action virale afin de faire du bruit sur les réseaux sociaux. Puisque les droits des stagiaires sont virtuels, puisqu’ils n’ont pas le droit de se mobiliser sur leur lieu de stage, les réseaux sociaux sont un moyen pour faire (...) Flash Mob “vrais postes, droits réels ?” Flash Mob “vrais postes, droits réels ?” Génération stagiaire, génération précaire 9 ans que Génération Précaire existe 9 ans de combat pour que les stagiaires aient un vrai statut. Commission des affaires sociales : Encadrement des stages2014, année du changement pour les stagiaires ? Haro sur les conventions de stages bidons

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